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Pyga MountainbikesTue, 17 Feb 2015 07:02:24 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1Pyga OneForty650 Pascoe -Teak-tough 650b trail muncherhttp://www.pygaindustries.com/news/pyga-oneforty650-pascoe-teak-tough-650b-trail-muncher.html
http://www.pygaindustries.com/news/pyga-oneforty650-pascoe-teak-tough-650b-trail-muncher.html#commentsFri, 03 Oct 2014 12:53:54 +0000http://www.pygaindustries.com/?p=316Pyga’s OneForty650 Pascoe is a brilliant bike for riders who want to feel totally involved in the ride, and who love – even more – those luxuriously long seconds of victory as you wait for mates at the end of every technical section.

]]>Pyga’s OneForty650 Pascoe is a brilliant bike for riders who want to feel totally involved in the ride, and who love – even more – those luxuriously long seconds of victory as you wait for mates at the end of every technical section.

]]>http://www.pygaindustries.com/news/pyga-oneforty650-pascoe-teak-tough-650b-trail-muncher.html/feed0BikeMagic First Look – Pyga Zero650chttp://www.pygaindustries.com/news/bikemagic-first-look-pyga-zero650c.html
http://www.pygaindustries.com/news/bikemagic-first-look-pyga-zero650c.html#commentsMon, 15 Sep 2014 13:39:28 +0000http://www.pygaindustries.com/?p=305A few years ago Patrick Morewood left his own bike brand, Morewood Bikes, so start a new venture called Pyga Industries. Bikemagic has already had a razz on the Oneten29 which really impressed, and the OneTwenty650 and now we’ve got our hands on their new Zero650c. It’s a carbon fibre hardtail with a light carbon frame and 650b wheels. […]

]]>A few years ago Patrick Morewood left his own bike brand, Morewood Bikes, so start a new venture called Pyga Industries. Bikemagic has already had a razz on the Oneten29 which really impressed, and the OneTwenty650 and now we’ve got our hands on their new Zero650c. It’s a carbon fibre hardtail with a light carbon frame and 650b wheels.

“The ZERO650C was designed for the adventurous XC rider, light and stiff but using the trail oriented geometry that makes our bikes more fun to ride,” says Pyga.

]]>http://www.pygaindustries.com/news/bikemagic-first-look-pyga-zero650c.html/feed0Pyga OneTen29 – A 29er that loves to hammerhttp://www.pygaindustries.com/reviews/pyga-oneten29-29er-loves-hammer.html
http://www.pygaindustries.com/reviews/pyga-oneten29-29er-loves-hammer.html#commentsFri, 12 Sep 2014 16:22:22 +0000http://www.pygaindustries.com/?p=294If you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, you shouldn’t judge a bike by its head badge. Especially if the badge says it’s an orange 650b bike and it’s actually a green 29er. That’s one of the only glitches on the otherwise outstanding Pyga OneTen 29 – and if you like blasting techy singletrack we’re […]

]]>If you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, you shouldn’t judge a bike by its head badge. Especially if the badge says it’s an orange 650b bike and it’s actually a green 29er.

That’s one of the only glitches on the otherwise outstanding Pyga OneTen 29 – and if you like blasting techy singletrack we’re sure you’ll just laugh about it like we did.

Frame and equipment: enduro ready

Pyga has been around for a few years, since top southern hemisphere designer Patrick Morewood split with the bike company that carried his name and started a new one. Having loved the hard-as-nails short travel 650b we tested last year we were super-keen to get on its 110mm travel 29er as soon as possible. Within seconds of hitting our local singletrack, scything round the first bend then hopping into and manualling out of the normally tricky step-up chicane round a fallen tree it was obvious it was well worth the wait.

It’s a sign of the priorities of this machine that despite a cross-country amount of travel our sample came with a 40mm stem and 740mm bars, and they totally suit it. All three frame sizes are long for their height so they work really well with a short stem. The frame is also extremely stiff so there’s no danger of the big bars tying the inset bearing head tube and long shared seam top and down tube junction in knots, however hard you wrestle it.

]]>http://www.pygaindustries.com/reviews/pyga-oneten29-29er-loves-hammer.html/feed0Test winner: Pyga Industries ONETEN29http://www.pygaindustries.com/reviews/test-winner-pyga-industries-oneten29.html
http://www.pygaindustries.com/reviews/test-winner-pyga-industries-oneten29.html#commentsMon, 01 Sep 2014 07:38:43 +0000http://www.redearthwebdesign.com/pygabeta/?p=83Unveiling the ONETEN29 in January 2012, Patrick Morewood described the bike as a trail machine that’s fun to ride all day, with 120mm travel up front and 110mm at the back. This may be true, but in creating a bike that pedals well and can be flicked and manualed around a trail, he’s ended up […]

]]>Unveiling the ONETEN29 in January 2012, Patrick Morewood described the bike as a trail machine that’s fun to ride all day, with 120mm travel up front and 110mm at the back. This may be true, but in creating a bike that pedals well and can be flicked and manualed around a trail, he’s ended up with a bike that can be raced, right out the box. In our tester line-up we included a pro mountain bike racer, Renay Groustra, to offset the group of riders whose primary focus is having fun blasting down a technical trail. We figured the PYGA might not be his thing, but Groustra disagreed, saying he’d race this if he had to tackle a technical course (and if he could get it a little lighter).

]]>Pyga bikes are the latest project to come from South African suspension bike supremo Patrick Morewood, and the OneTwenty650 is the 120mm (4.7in) travel, intermediate-wheeled sibling of the equally self explanatory OneTen29. You shouldn’t let the short travel fool you though, this bike is a genuine giant killer.

Ride and handling

If any bike ever had a Napoleon complex, it’s the OneTwenty. However hard we rode it into stuff, it never once got baulked or blown off the trail and it consistently recomposed itself after drops quicker and straighter.

It always seemed to have enough extra space and grip left to pull any cornering line in even tighter and exit even faster than seemed plausible.

]]>As far as 29ers go, there haven’t been many as successful in opening the minds of hardcore 26″ riders as the Pyga Industries Oneten29.

Steve Walker, or ‘The Butcher’ as he’s known (he’s a butcher), has an open mind to all sorts of bikes and all styles of two-wheeled riding. In his first bike review for Bike Magic (he has been a Dirt Magazine contributor for quite some time), The Butcher takes the Pyga for a spin and falls head-over-heels in love.

If you ride and race UK gravity enduro events and are in it to win it then the Pyga will not disappoint. Nor will it if you are in it purely to ride at the weekend for fun. No exaggeration here, it is the fastest trail centre bike I’ve ridden to date, with a solid feeling suspension system and bang on geometry to boot. Everything I asked our Pyga to do, it did. It jumped, manualed, took me around turns faster (by 2mph remember) than ever before and never once got me into trouble due to fatigue or rider error.

After a final hard day’s riding (both up and down), when I finally got back to the van to go home, I actually patted the Pyga on the top tube and said, “That’ll do pet, that’ll do”.

]]>http://www.pygaindustries.com/reviews/216.html/feed0Eurobike 2012 – PYGA Industries OneTen29http://www.pygaindustries.com/news/eurobike-2012-pyga-industries-oneten29.html
http://www.pygaindustries.com/news/eurobike-2012-pyga-industries-oneten29.html#commentsThu, 21 Aug 2014 06:57:19 +0000http://www.redearthwebdesign.com/pygabeta/?p=188We have photographed on the Euro bike a frame that has been so far only seen as early prototype and has not been officially issued on the Euro bike. It is the One29 of Pyga Industries, the new brand of Morewood-founder Partrick Morewood.

]]>We have photographed on the Euro bike a frame that has been so far only seen as early prototype and has not been officially issued on the Euro bike. It is the One29 of Pyga Industries, the new brand of Morewood-founder Partrick Morewood.

]]>http://www.pygaindustries.com/news/eurobike-2012-pyga-industries-oneten29.html/feed0PYGA Industries 29ers – First lookhttp://www.pygaindustries.com/news/pyga-industries-29ers-first-look.html
http://www.pygaindustries.com/news/pyga-industries-29ers-first-look.html#commentsWed, 20 Aug 2014 08:33:56 +0000http://www.redearthwebdesign.com/pygabeta/?p=146Patrick Morewood set up PYGA Industries last year after leaving Morewood Bikes in search of a new challenge. He’s now given us a look at his first two new bikes, the Oneten29 and Zero29. As the model names indicate, both have big wheels, with the former sporting 110mm of linkage-controlled single-pivot travel and the latter […]

]]>Patrick Morewood set up PYGA Industries last year after leaving Morewood Bikes in search of a new challenge. He’s now given us a look at his first two new bikes, the Oneten29 and Zero29.

As the model names indicate, both have big wheels, with the former sporting 110mm of linkage-controlled single-pivot travel and the latter being a hardtail. The frames are hand welded using 6069 alloy tubing before being heat treated, aligned and finished at Morewood’s new workshop in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

These two models are planned for late May sales as framesets, with pricing yet to be determined. Both sport contemporary features including tapered head tubes and Syntace X-12 rear through-axles, but what first caught our eye was their progressive geometry. They have short chainstays for 29ers (435mm for the Zero29, 440mm for the Oneten29), and slack head angles (69.5° and 70°, respectively).

]]>http://www.pygaindustries.com/news/pyga-industries-29ers-first-look.html/feed0PYGA Industries OneTen29 – First ridehttp://www.pygaindustries.com/reviews/pyga-industries-oneten29-first-ride.html
http://www.pygaindustries.com/reviews/pyga-industries-oneten29-first-ride.html#commentsWed, 20 Aug 2014 08:23:12 +0000http://www.redearthwebdesign.com/pygabeta/?p=143Even more impressive is the fact that the PYGA displays such solid pedaling chops without resorting to heavy-handed compression valving on the rear shock, lending a lively personality that’s full of pop. We rode the course after all the weekend’s racing had wrapped up, and even on the well-worn braking bumps the PYGA’s rear wheel […]

]]>Even more impressive is the fact that the PYGA displays such solid pedaling chops without resorting to heavy-handed compression valving on the rear shock, lending a lively personality that’s full of pop.

We rode the course after all the weekend’s racing had wrapped up, and even on the well-worn braking bumps the PYGA’s rear wheel was surprisingly planted. Moreover, the unique rear brake setup – the caliper is mounted to the seat stays despite having pivots located above the rear dropouts – provides a slight floating arrangement that keeps the rear end from locking up when the pads are engaged.